Young adults need details on insurance coverage law

To work, Affordable Care Act needs millennials

9:57 PM,
Sep. 15, 2013

Neil Howe stands in between the rainbow bars at the Clemyjontri playground in McLean, Virgnia, with children ages 2 to 5. Howe and his now deceased business partner, coined the term 'millennials,' a generation from about 1982 to 2004.

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Tom Wilemon
The (Nashville) Tennessean

Zach Ryan's decision will help determine the success or failure of the Affordable Care Act.

He's not a powerful politician, a corporate executive or a federal judge. He's a 26-year-old without health insurance.

Whether he and millions of other young people buy coverage is crucial for the federal health law to reach the goal of making insurance affordable. Their participation is needed to offset the cost of guaranteed coverage for older people with pre-existing conditions. But with barely more than two weeks before enrollment begins on a newly created exchange for the uninsured, most ...